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Duo Core 2 T2050 1.6GHz vs Pentium III 1.6GHz

iceman2003

Posted 09 August 2006 - 08:35 PM

iceman2003

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I am thinking about purchasing a new Toshiba Laptop A105-4074 running with Intel Duo Core 2 T2050 if it would be an improvement over my old desktop Pentium 1.6GHz desktop w/768MB RAM. Don't really do much but I am starting to do a lot of transferring of video from my digital camcorder to the PC so that I can burn it onto DVDs. Not doing much editing and am using Cyberlink PowerDirector 5. Will you there be a speed improvement in rendering and burning DVDs? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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SRX660

Posted 10 August 2006 - 05:08 AM

SRX660

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Just a personal opinion here.

Core speed is core speed so i don't think you will see any improvement with the core duo. If it is slightly better i don't think it will be enough for you to notice the speed difference. I would think about getting a new laptop that was much faster like a 2.16 core duo laptop. Here Anandtech's take on them.

warriorscot

Posted 10 August 2006 - 07:52 AM

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SRX are you messing P3 at 1.6 and a core 2 at the same speed are in totally different leagues of speed the core 2 is ALOT more effiecient with its speed its also got two cores, it would be alot faster than the p3 by a country mile i think we have seen in recent years how clock speed is irelevant to a fair extent.

All the video based work and creating the disk images would get a big speed boost from the core 2 as its a largely cpu intensive process the two cores will go through that in no time at all.